Jesus College is one of the
constituent colleges of the
University of Oxford
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in England. Its alumni include politicians, lawyers, bishops, poets, and academics. Some went on to become
fellows of the college; 14 students later became
principal of the college. It was founded in 1571 by
Queen Elizabeth I
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, at the request of a Welsh clergyman,
Hugh Price Hugh Price may refer to:
* Hugh Price (intelligence), former senior official in the Central Intelligence Agency
* Hugh Price (lawyer) (c. 1495–1574), Welsh lawyer and cleric; founder of Jesus College, Oxford
* Hugh Bernard Price (born 1941), U.S. ...
, who was Treasurer of
St David's Cathedral in
Pembrokeshire
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. The college still has strong links with Wales, and about 15% of students are Welsh. There are 340 undergraduates and 190 students carrying out postgraduate studies. Old members of Jesus College are sometimes known as "Jesubites".
From the world of politics, the college's alumni include two Prime Ministers (
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 197 ...
of Britain and
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013. He held office as the Leaders of the Australian Labo ...
of Australia), Jamaica's
Chief Minister
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and first Premier (
Norman Washington Manley), a
Speaker of the
House of Commons
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(
Sir William Williams), a leader of the
Liberal Democrats (Sir
Ed Davey
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), a co-founder of
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...
(
D. J. Williams) and a co-founder of the
African National Congress
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(
Pixley ka Isaka Seme). Members of Parliament from the
three main political parties in the United Kingdom have attended the college, as have politicians from Australia (
Neal Blewett
Neal Blewett, Order of Australia, AC (born 24 October 1933) is an Australian Australian Labor Party, Labor Party politician, diplomat and historian. He was the Australian House of Representatives, Member of the House of Representatives for Divis ...
), New Zealand (
Harold Rushworth), Sri Lanka (
Lalith Athulathmudali) and the United States (
Heather Wilson). The list of lawyers include one
Lord Chancellor
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(
Lord Sankey) and one
Law Lord
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(
Lord du Parcq). The list of clergy includes three
Archbishops of Wales (
A. G. Edwards,
Glyn Simon and
Gwilym Williams
Gwilym Owen Williams (23 March 1913 – 23 December 1990) was a prominent figure in the Church in Wales who served as Bishop of Bangor from 1957 to 1982 and Archbishop of Wales from 1971 to 1982.
Biography
Williams was born to a deeply religiou ...
).
Celticists associated with the college include
Sir John Morris-Jones,
Sir Thomas (T. H.) Parry-Williams and
William John Gruffydd, whilst the list of historians includes the college's first graduate,
David Powel, who published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, and the Victorian historian
John Richard Green. The list includes a recipient of the
Victoria Cross
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(
Angus Buchanan) and
T. E. Lawrence, better known as "Lawrence of Arabia."
Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the popular science bestsellers ''
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'' (2014), ''
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow'' (2016), and ''
21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' (2018) was a student at the college. Record-breaking
quadriplegic
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solo sailor
Hilary Lister was also a student there, whilst from the field of arts and entertainment there are names such as
Magnus Magnusson
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, presenter of ''
Mastermind
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Fictional characters
* Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde), a fictional supervillain in Marvel Comics, a title also held by his daughters:
** Martinique Jason, the first daughter and successor of the ...
'', the National Poet of Wales
Gwyn Thomas and television weather presenters
Kirsty McCabe and
Siân Lloyd.
Because women were barred from studying at Jesus College for over four centuries (from its foundation until 1974), this list of alumni consists almost entirely of men.
Alumni
The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category.
;Abbreviations used in the following tables:
*M – Year of
matriculation
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Australia
In Australia, the term ''matriculation'' is seldom used no ...
at Jesus College (a dash indicates that the individual did not matriculate at the college)
*G – Year of
graduation
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/ conclusion of study at Jesus College (a dash indicates that the individual graduated from another college)
*DNG – Did not graduate: left the college without taking a degree
*? – Year unknown; an approximate year is used for table-sorting purposes.
*(F/P) after name – later became a
fellow
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or principal of Jesus College, and included on the
list of principals and fellows
*(HF) after name – later became an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, and included on the
list of Honorary Fellows
;Degree abbreviations
*Undergraduate degree: BA –
Bachelor of Arts
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*Postgraduate degrees:
:*BCL –
Bachelor of Civil Law
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:*BD –
Bachelor of Divinity
:*BLitt –
Bachelor of Letters
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:*BMus –
Bachelor of Music
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:*BSc –
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
:*BTh –
Bachelor of Theology
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:*MA –
Master of Arts
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:*MB –
Bachelor of Medicine
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:*MD –
Doctor of Medicine
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:*MLitt –
Master of Letters
:*MSc –
Master of Science
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:*MPhil –
Master of Philosophy
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:*DCL –
Doctor of Civil Law
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At Oxford, the degree is a higher doctorate usually awarded on the basis of except ...
:*DD –
Doctor of Divinity
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:*DLitt –
Doctor of Letters
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:*DMus –
Doctor of Music
The Doctor of Music degree (DMus, DM, MusD or occasionally MusDoc) is a doctorate awarded on the basis of a substantial portfolio of compositions, musical performances, and/or scholarly publications on music.
In some institutions, the award is a ...
:*DPhil –
Doctor of Philosophy
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:*DTh –
Doctor of Theology
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The subject studied and the
degree classification are included, where known. Until the early 19th century, undergraduates read for a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree that included study of Latin and Greek texts, mathematics, geometry, philosophy and theology. Individual subjects at undergraduate level were only introduced later: for example, Mathematics (1805), Natural Science (1850),
Jurisprudence
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(1851, although it had been available before this to students who obtained special permission), Modern History (1851) and Theology (1871). Geography and Modern Languages were introduced in the 20th century. Music had been available as a specialist subject before these changes; medicine was studied as a post-graduate subject.
Politicians and civil servants
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 197 ...
studied at Jesus College from 1934 to 1937, and was later the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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during two periods (from October 1964 to June 1970, and from March 1974 to April 1976). More than 30 other
Members of Parliament have been educated at the college, from
Sir John Salusbury who was elected as MP for
Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthi ...
in 1601 to
Theresa Villiers
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who was elected as MP for
Chipping Barnet
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in 2005.
[''Who's Who'', sub nom.] Sir Leoline Jenkins, who became a
fellow
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and later the principal of the college, was
Secretary of State for the Northern Department
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from 1680 to 1681 and
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
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from 1681 to 1685.
[Baker, p. 15] Sir William Williams served as
Speaker of the House of Commons from 1680 to 1685 and as
Solicitor General for England and Wales
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from 1687 to 1689.
[Foster, ''1500–1714'', sub nom.] Evan Cotton was MP for
Finsbury East before holding the position of President of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1922 to 1925.
[''Oxford Men''][''Honours'', sub nom.] Several Welsh politicians have been educated at the college, some representing constituencies in Wales (such as
Sir John Wogan, representing
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and ...
at various times between 1614 and 1644) and others working outside Parliament, such as
D. J. Williams (a co-founder of the Welsh nationalist party
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...
).
Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2020–present, Sir Ed Davey
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey (born 25 December 1965) is a British politician who has served as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, leader of the Liberal Democrat party since 2020. He served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State ...
, was also educated at the college.
Other students at the college have held political offices in other countries. Norman Manley was Chief Minister
A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union ter ...
of Jamaica from 1955 to 1959, and served as its first and only Premier from 1959 to 1962 whilst negotiating its independence. In 2017, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd began studying for a doctorate on Xi Jinping
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at the college. P. T. Rajan was Chief Minister of Madras Presidency between April and August 1936. Heather Wilson was the first Old Member of the college to sit in the United States House of Representatives
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, where she represented New Mexico's 1st congressional district
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from 1998 to 2009. The Australian politician Neal Blewett
Neal Blewett, Order of Australia, AC (born 24 October 1933) is an Australian Australian Labor Party, Labor Party politician, diplomat and historian. He was the Australian House of Representatives, Member of the House of Representatives for Divis ...
was a member of the Australian House of Representatives
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...
from 1977 to 1994, a Government Minister
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from 1983 to 1994 and High Commissioner to the UK from 1994 to 1998. Pixley ka Isaka Seme, who studied for a BCL between 1906 and 1909, was one of the founder members of the African National Congress
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.
Civil servants and diplomats educated at Jesus College include Sir Edgar Vaughan (British Ambassador to Colombia
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from 1964 to 1966), Gunasena de Soyza ( High Commissioner for Ceylon
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in Britain from 1960 to 1961), Sir Frederick Atkinson (Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury
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from 1977 to 1979), Sir Thomas Williams Phillips (Permanent Secretary
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of the Ministry of Labour from 1935 to 1944 and Chairman of the War Damage Commission from 1949 to 1959), Eryl Davies (a former Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales), and Christopher Lintrup Paus (a long-time British diplomat in Oslo).[
]
Judges and lawyers
Several prominent judges and lawyers were educated at the college. Viscount Sankey, who was Lord Chancellor
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from 1929 to 1935, studied for a BA in History and a BCL between 1885 and 1891. Lord du Parcq was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1946. Sir Richard Richards became Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1817. The Scottish MP and lawyer Lord Murray was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1979. The solicitor Sir David Lewis was Lord Mayor of the City of London
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from 2007 to 2008. Other lawyers who studied at the college include James Chadwin QC, who defended the Yorkshire Ripper, and Sir Arthur James, who prosecuted the Great Train Robbers and later became a judge of the Court of Appeal
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. Academic lawyers include J Duncan M Derrett, Professor of Oriental Laws in the University of London
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from 1965 to 1982, and Alfred Hazel, Reader in English Law at All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...
.[
]
Clergy
Three Archbishops of Wales have studied at Jesus College. A. G. Edwards, the first archbishop of the Church in Wales
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The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The position is currently held b ...
after its disestablishment, read Literae Humaniores from 1871 to 1874, and was archbishop from 1920 to 1934. Glyn Simon, who was a student from 1922 to 1926, was Archbishop of Wales from 1968 to 1971. He was succeeded by Gwilym Williams
Gwilym Owen Williams (23 March 1913 – 23 December 1990) was a prominent figure in the Church in Wales who served as Bishop of Bangor from 1957 to 1982 and Archbishop of Wales from 1971 to 1982.
Biography
Williams was born to a deeply religiou ...
, who was archbishop from 1971 to 1982.
Other bishops to have held office in Wales include Francis Davies, Roy Davies, John Harris, and Morgan Owen (who were all Bishops of Llandaff), Humphrey Humphreys, Daniel Lewis Lloyd and Humphrey Lloyd (who were Bishops of Bangor), William Lloyd and John Wynne (who were Bishops of St Asaph), and John Owen and William Thomas (who were Bishops of St David's). William Havard was a Welsh rugby international before becoming Bishop of St Asaph
The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.
The diocese covers the counties of Conwy county borough, Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The ...
, then Bishop of St David's.
Former students of the college to have become bishops outside England and Wales include Rowland Ellis ( Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1906 to 1911), Richard Meredith ( Bishop of Leighlin from 1579 to 1597), and John Rider ( Bishop of Killaloe 1612 to 1632). In the twentieth century, bishops to have studied at the college include Kenneth Cragg (assistant Bishop of Jerusalem from 1970 to 1973), John Dickinson
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(assistant Bishop of Melanesia from 1931 to 1937), Gordon Roe (Bishop of Huntingdon
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from 1980 to 1997), Alwyn Williams (Bishop of Durham
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from 1939 to 1952 and Bishop of Winchester
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The Bishop of Winchester has always held ''ex officio'' the offic ...
from 1952 to 1961), and Clifford Woodward ( Bishop of Bristol from 1933 to 1946 and Bishop of Gloucester
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The diocese covers the Gloucestershire, County of Gloucestershire and part ...
from 1946 to 1953).
Several former students have been appointed as cathedral deans; many others became parish priests in Wales and elsewhere in the Anglican church, some also finding time for other activities such as writing poetry or pursuing antiquarian interests. At least five have been Dean of Bangor – Henry Edwards, Henry James
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, Evan Lewis, John Pryce and James Vincent. Llewelyn Hughes was Dean of Ripon
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from 1951 to 1967, Alex Wedderspoon was Dean of Guildford
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from 1987 to 2001, and Wesley Carr was Dean of Westminster Abbey
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from 1997 to 2006.[ Edmund Meyrick, who studied at the college between 1656 and 1659, became Treasurer of St David's Cathedral; his bequest founded the college's Meyrick scholarships for students from North Wales, and scholarships from this fund are still awarded.][Baker, p. 61] The lexicographer
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries.
* The ...
John Davies of Mallwyd, who translated the Bible into Welsh, studied at the college. In the mid-19th century, some Anglican priests were influenced by John Henry Newman
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and converted to Roman Catholicism, including David Lewis; Edmund Ffoulkes converted too, but later went back to Anglicanism, becoming vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
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in Oxford. John David Jenkins, who was Canon
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Arts and entertainment
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* Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
** Western canon, th ...
of Pietermaritzburg
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for a time, was later nicknamed the "Rail men's Apostle" for his ministry to railway workers in Oxford. David Thomas, a priest in Gwynedd
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, was instrumental in the foundation of a Welsh church in the Welsh settlement in Argentina.
Some students have become ministers in other denominations of Christianity. Methodists include David Charles and Christopher Bassett; Baptists include Gwilym Davies (the first person to broadcast on the radio in Welsh, in 1923); Welsh Presbyterians include William David Davies and Gwilym Edwards;[ Unitarians include John Islan Jones; and Catholics include John Hugh Jones and the ]Benedictine
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, th ...
monk and poet Sylvester Houédard.[
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Military personnel
Celticists
Classicists and archeologists
Geographers, geologists and cartographers
Historians and antiquarians
Language and literature academics
Philosophers and theologians
Mathematics, medicine and science
Mathematicians to have studied at Jesus College include Nigel Hitchin (Savilian Professor of Geometry
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at Oxford since 1997), the Canadian Jonathan Borwein and Jim Mauldon (who taught at Oxford before moving to the United States to teach at Amherst College
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, Massachusetts
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). David E. Evans is Professor of Mathematics at Cardiff University
Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...
, and H. W. Lloyd Tanner was Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at one of its predecessor institutions, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire.[ Several noted individuals from biology, botany and zoology were educated at the college, including the Welsh clergyman Hugh Davies (whose ''Welsh Botanology'' of 1813 cross-referenced the Welsh-language and the scientific names of plants), Edward Bagnall Poulton (Professor of Zoology at Oxford) and James Brontë Gatenby (Professor of Zoology at ]Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...
).[Baker, p. 68] Frank Greenaway was Keeper of the Department of Chemistry at the Science Museum
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in London for over 20 years, and the physicist Chris Rapley was appointed director of the museum in 2007.[ Other physicists who are Old Members of the college include Michael Woolfson (a former Professor of Physics at the ]University of York
The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...
) and Edward Hinds (whose work on ultra-cold matter won him the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society
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in 2008).[ Edwin Stevens, who studied Natural Science at the college, went on to design the world's first wearable hearing aid, and Sir Graham Sutton became director-general of the ]Meteorological Office
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.[Baker, p. 132]
Other academics
Educators
Artists and writers
Broadcasters and entertainers
Musicians
Sports people
Other people in public life
Fictional students of Jesus College
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Cited in references as: Baker
* Cited in references as: Foster, ''1500–1714''
* Cited in references as: Foster, ''1715–1886''
* Cited in references as: ''Oxford Men''
* Cited in references as: ''Members List''
* Cited in references as: ''ODNB''
* Cited in references as: ''Honours''
* Cited in references as: ''Members 1972''
* Cited in references as: ''Honours Supplement 1930''
* Cited in references as: ''Honours Supplement 1950''
* Cited in references as: ''Honours Supplement 1965''
* Cited in references as: ''DWB''
* Cited in references as: ''Who's Who''
* Cited in references as: ''Who Was Who''
External links
List of notable Old Members, Jesus College website
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Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford